Notices by Kate (katebowles@mastodon.social), page 5

@lauraritchie @fgraver

Hope is something to be practised in this way, I believe, especially in swamp guiding. Good luck, and so much love to you.

@lauraritchie @fgraver

Update. I’m now the subject of a lot of advice from teenagers about tattoos: what, where, why, and so much why not.

My personal favourite:

“At least you know how your skin is going to age.”

@moritzheiber Travely safely!

@lauraritchie @fgraver

Christmas morning at the beach, sparkling and calm. And this cairn.

Surprise gift: a tattoo voucher. So now I’m hunting through tattoo websites.

@Gargron Not all people. x

@dadegroot Love and good times to your five too!

@dadegroot I’ve gone so low key with cooking it’s practically a regular Tuesday. But looking forward to considerably doing nothing, with loved ones. Our little troupe has really been through the grinder of life’s challenges in the past four years, and yet we’re still here, all five under one roof (which we weren’t last year).

Much to appreciate, tough as it still is.

Christmas Eve evening, the shops are finally shut, we’re in the garden listening to James Brown. Our small seaside community is bracing itself for tomorrow when the beaches will be packed.

It’s honestly a blessing to live here, to walk on this beach every day, to live beside this wide wild ocean.

#gratitude

@maloki I’d like to try. I’ve hardly slung a sentence together this year that wasn’t in an email about a thing.

@Gargron This whole thread is beautiful.

If your shoes/boots are new, wear them at home first. Let them learn to fit you.

Don’t invest in a disguise. Do you. Have fun.

@compostablespork I’m not at all in the frame, this was done by people close to me professionally who are now managing a media storm.

I’m staying calm.

The thing has brought @bryanalexander to mind, as it’s about the liberal arts and his writing on this has been influential to my thinking.

Meanwhile the thing has brought us into public partnership with a conservative philanthropic outfit that has Jordan B Peterson quotes on its website (and Elon Musk) and I can’t even.

It’s been a week. The place where I work has done a thing, secretively and in somewhat bad faith. Those who were in the loop are now trying to make it look like there was no loop, while simultaneously explaining why there had to be a loop, and indeed the nature of the backlash proves that secrecy was warranted.

Except that the backlash, which is angry and public and all over the media, is significantly about the secrecy.

So now we really are in a loop, perhaps endlessly.

@compostablespork @lauraritchie @tdorey

What a beautiful word, thank you for this gift.

@lauraritchie @tdorey @compostablespork

Just sending love to you all. Elder daughter is now back with us for two weeks, middle daughter turns 18 tomorrow. I am holding my ground just about.

Keep moving forward, manage risk, repeat.